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I have a shapefile which I can view in Mapwindow5,

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But I need the co-ordinates only for my analysis. I've never used shapefile or geodata before. Is there any way to convert the shapefile into a CSV file? I didn't find any export option in Mapwindow5.

How can I do this?

I open the shapefile using the qgis and got this,

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The coordinate looks very strange. After some analysis, I knew that it was VICGRID 1994 co-ordinate system. And I didn't manage to find any option to export that into latitude and longitude.

N00BMaster
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    If you don't find a solution in Mapwindow5, you can use QGIS for that.It's opensource: https://www.qgis.org/ – Babel May 27 '23 at 12:31
  • This is a very common and easy task for a GIS. You could use QGIS as @Babel suggest but you could also use ArcMap\ArcPro if you have those installed, then its simply using the Add XY Coordinates tool. – Hornbydd May 27 '23 at 14:13
  • If I am not wrong then XY Coordinates won't be the same as lat/lon? Isn't it? I am installing qgis, but it's a large file (as my internet is super slow :) ). @Hornbydd Is there any export option in qgis? – N00BMaster May 27 '23 at 15:31
  • The XY tool creates the XY values in the native coordinate system, so if the data was actually lat/long then you get those. I think that's pretty standard in any GIS system. Have tried typing into this forum search bar on how to export xy in qgis... – Hornbydd May 27 '23 at 19:33
  • I got XY values in VICGRID 1994 co-ordinate. But for my work I badly need that in lat/long format. I search for any convert tool which can help me to get lat/long, but couldn't manage. Sorry to bother you, but can you suggest how can I do so? and thanks for your responses. – N00BMaster May 28 '23 at 04:05
  • Add Lats and Longs with the Field Calculator like This – Pointdump May 28 '23 at 10:20

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